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Jerry Dodrill
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Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2007 - 09:31pm PT
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What eht heck happened here? Stepped a way for a while and... Blamo. Youz all must me growin' wacko weed. I expected more photos. You feelin okay Lois?
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spot
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Atascadero,Ca
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Jul 30, 2007 - 12:07am PT
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You don't know me from adam, but I had to go out and take a couple of pics of our garden, because jerry wants more pictures. It's small becuase we have to garden in rasied beds with wire bottoms to keep the *#&(@ gophers out.
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our squash/pumpkin patch
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our corn. found a sweet corn that's suppose to be red. My wife is also growing purple carrots. go figure.
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Jerry Dodrill
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Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2007 - 01:15am PT
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Hey, thanks ya'll. Ed, It would be easier if I just came over and ate out of your garden than try my own. Nonetheless, I'll have to keep at it. What I really want is tomatoes. I just don't know if it gets warm enough to ripen them this close to the coast. Ed, you're right that Burbank was right down the street in Sebastopol. Different here though. I'll have to take a look in my neighbors garden and see what he's got there.
I was real proud of myself starting squash from seed and getting five plants out of their pots, into the ground. They are flowering right now! Big orange flowers. Cool. But I guess it ain't a big deal to you veterans. Oh well. Also started some sweet basil, but its not doing so well.
LEB, why you're on the history kick, I'll contribute. There is a local potato here called the Bodega Red. Apparently the Russians were here a long long time ago and tried starting farms in Bodega valley to have fresh vegetables in their fort and to send along on the ships which were going back to the motherland with loads of otter pelts. The story goes that the gophers ultimately chased them out. They couldn't grow enough food to sustain themselves. Probably not entirely true, because they darn near annhilated the otters before they left, but the Bodega Red survived just barely and is still grown by a few locals today.
Anyone been to T. Addison's garden in El Cerrito? He always brings the oddest stuff to the crag...
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Jerry Dodrill
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Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2007 - 01:29am PT
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Man. Are you serious? I've got a single shot .22 with a gopher carved on the stock. Guess what I use it for... duh.
Oh, apparently after the Ruskies left, the Spaniards trick was to put chicken guts down the gopher holes. It worked.
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Matt
Trad climber
the land where lois don't roam
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Jul 30, 2007 - 02:04am PT
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hey jerry-
bummer this thread is light on pics, i'll post a few up tomorrow. we got a late jump, but now have i think 14 tomatoes in the dirt. what you need are specific tomatoes bred for cool weather- oregon state and others hav come up w/ some good varieties that ought to produce, even out there. the best thing to do is find local knowledge and local resources, and glean what you can from those who have already done the dirty work.
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Ed Hartouni
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Livermore, CA
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Jul 30, 2007 - 02:11am PT
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Jerry, I'll ask D what she would recommend.. she was muttering somthing about "crabby looking tomato plants" this afternoon... not a good year.
Hey Matt, like your by-line... but Lois has roamed around these parts in the past, and in this life too I believe.
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Matt
Trad climber
always on the lookout for ed's 5.10 OW van
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Jul 30, 2007 - 03:08pm PT
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hey ed- i actually forgot that was there- how's the new one?
jerry- any objection if i post up a new thread when i snap some pics? "let's see your garden" has 40+ posts and only 3 or 4 pics, come on...
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dirtineye
Trad climber
the south
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Jul 30, 2007 - 03:46pm PT
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LOL, growing season too short for seeds, hmmm.
Start your own plants, from seed, in effing january if need be, indoors or in green house.
This is not exactly a secret of gardening.
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scuffy b
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The deck above the 5
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Jul 30, 2007 - 04:11pm PT
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It's important to set a small enough size limit for your summer
squash. For most people, it's insanity to harvest them at the
size you find in stores.
If you harvest Zucchini at two inches instead of six inches, there may be hope. YMMV.
Some people have bacchanals involving the use of big Zucchini
and excess tomatoes as bats and balls.
Hit this, Sucker!!
...and it's another broken-bat blooper from Werner...
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salad
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San Diego
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Jul 30, 2007 - 04:33pm PT
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this was from a few years ago. everything that came out this garden was delicous.
this years isnt doing very well. our soil sucks at the new place.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2007 - 04:43pm PT
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Nice Salad.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 30, 2007 - 07:54pm PT
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hey there... comeing from a poor person, with virtually no money, one would reckon a garden would be right nice for food---wellllllllll, in california, yeah... it was great, as the growing season took to spouting all kinds of great stuff (course, i was there with my folks)...
now, then, in south texas... near about the same kind of stuff will grow--and is just great too, for the pocket book.... some wonderful extras that will grow from seed easily, if you can't afford to set out store boughts, are:
cactus, and their fruit (called tUnas)... very good to eat...plus, if you just throw-down black eyed peas, they will sprout and you can eat the raw, as thin tender beans before they ever develope... then, papayas do great...and tomatoes...and okra do wonderful... watermelons, too...
now, here in michigan, my gardens have never seen the light of success, but then again, i dont got the money to buy early plants to set in the house, etc, til winter is long-gone... but shucks, one CAN eat some wonderful stuff from nature:
grape leaves ABOUND... and dandelions, galore... great stuff for when you're hungry :) ...and then, if you get to walk in the woods a bit, there is blackberries, raspberries, and on some occasions, wild strawberries, so this is the best i can hope for, for my garden days... as, i had tried corn and got a few cobs about as big as one in long, oh MYYYYYYY... (good thing the corn fields do better, under much better direction, i reckon, and well set plants)... hmmm,seems i got a mite too much shade in every home i have rented here.... tomatoes are barely at small green stage---welllll, i did get to fry a few green ones... poke does great, but only the baby greens are safe, to eat....did get a tiny bit of peas once...
say, wild thistles and knapweed abound, so they make a great flower garden, along with the poke plant--lovely flowers, on well.......... what i'm trying to say, you guys, is "HAPPY GARDENING!" ... WISH I WAS THERE... OR SOMEWHERE, to see it all!.... have fun!
as i need to stay here for bit, with some "adopted on family", i will take to enjoying the berries, and the dandelions and grapeleaves... at least fresh grape leaves are fun for cooking!
god bless... tote that shovel, and lift that compost and harvest some great food, you all....thanks for the fun share...
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Ouch!
climber
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Jul 30, 2007 - 08:12pm PT
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"poke does great"
If you take the young poke shoots and slice them crossways, bread and fry, they taste like okra.
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Jerry Dodrill
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Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2007 - 08:43pm PT
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poke? what dat?
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Ouch!
climber
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Jul 30, 2007 - 09:06pm PT
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Jerry, poke is a plant that has lots of poisonus parts when mature. Young leaves and shoots are edible and good. You can even buy it commercially canned.
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morphus
Mountain climber
Angleland
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Jul 31, 2007 - 03:39pm PT
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i'd like to see Lois' garden
in particular, the veg plot and orchard
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Ouch!
climber
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Jul 31, 2007 - 03:55pm PT
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DMT, would you have LEB post up some garden pictures? Thanks in advance.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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My wife and me trying to look Gothically American:
Our first stab at a garden in our new place in Seattle:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there ouch... say, that's that poke plant all right.... mine is doing great in my yard, and there is more on the way... say, i forgot to mention... i got "tons" (well, you know) of milkweeds growing too, transplants from the woods and fields, just a few miles away (course, they still grow all over)... when the pods are youngs, you can boil them, and reboil them in soup... the aneeshnabees here, (native americans) had many family members that used them in potato soup... some folks just say to par boil first, so not so "whatever".... oh, well... thanks my garden for now...
say, i did know abaout eating the young shoots, but not that they had tasted like oka.. thanks for the tip...
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